"But it's a lot harder for most of us to see what IBM has been up to in this century. Watson, the company's famous AI supercomputer, won Jeopardy! back in 2011. Yet since then, as far as most consumers are concerned, it's been mostly ads during football games and not a lot else. IBM has been busy, though, just not in a way most of us can see. It's fully an enterprise company now, as Arvind explains, and that business is booming."
"So I really wanted to ask Arvind how he felt about IBM investing in all of that Watson technology and showing it off a decade before everyone else, only to have maybe made the wrong technology bet and potentially miss out on the modern AI boom. You'll hear Arvind be pretty candid that the way IBM was approaching AI back then was off the mark - he says outright that pushing Watson so early into the healthcare field was "inappropriate.""
IBM historically shaped foundational computing and later showcased Watson by winning Jeopardy in 2011. Subsequent consumer visibility declined while enterprise work expanded and flourished. Early Watson-era efforts emphasized natural language processing and early deep learning, which have evolved into generative AI prompting new system design approaches. Attempts to apply Watson prematurely in healthcare proved inappropriate, but the underlying research and infrastructure remain useful. Developers and companies can build on that foundation, allowing IBM's enterprise business to adapt and participate in the generative AI transformation without starting from scratch.
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